VALUE BASED POLITICS –need of hour

1980’s popular Hindi film villains were caricatured businessman

90’s Liberalization killed the stereotype. ‘Inquilab’ staring Amitabh Bachchan

initiated change of villains from businessmen to politicians.

Filmi Stereotypes

Indian Neta’s have been a favourite target of smear campaigns & propagandas.

Colonial bureaucrats covered their incompetence & corruption with lopsided images of Neta’s

The Neta in Colonial Times

English speaking Indian bureaucrats cover their misdeeds under the umbrella of the political leaders.

Indian News channels routinely conduct ‘Sting operation’ on politicians, institutions, film stars etc. but no one has been ever tried a sting operation on an IAS Officer.

IAS- Indian in Name Only

VALUES TARRED…….

WHAT IS REQUIRED????

“Tired of crime, corruption and reservation, groups of middle-class citizens are coming together to change the political system by being part of it. Sunday Times profiles new political parties in the fray” [Middle-class comes to the party, Sunday Times of India, July 27, 2008.

Saturday, August 28, 2010Dr. JP launches Lok Satta Party in Tamil NaduFormally launching the unit, Lok Satta Party President Dr.

Jayaprakash Narayan called upon the middle classes and the media to shed cynicism, overcome despair and join the Lok Satta Party which is providing an ethical, political platform to transform Indian politics. “It is time the best and the brightest shouldered the responsibilities of leadership as in the days of the freedom movement and strove to make the country great. Let us not squander the present priceless opportunity.” 

Dr. JP said that the country would be in grave peril unless it addressed seven grave challenges confronting the country today. He listed them as poverty, corruption, centralization, absence of rule of law, urban-rural divide, liquor and drug menace and divisions within society.

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